Detective in the Red Chamber

Although Aunt Xue is a woman in a deep house and born with a romantic heart that doesn't match her age, she still vaguely sensed her daughter's intentions, and she couldn't feel her delicate body trembling, and blurted out, "You...you usually, don't you? Are you most annoyed that your elder brother has violated the king's law indiscriminately? How can you fall today..."

"Where does Mom want to go?"

Seeing that her mother was frightened, Xue Baochai hurriedly approached and acted like a daughter, and said coquettishly, "If it really comes to that point, there are Wang Shangshu, the second brother of the Sun family, and his aunt, and find an upright reason to send that person away. What's so difficult?"

Only then did Aunt Xue breathe a sigh of relief, fondled her tube top that was wet with tea, and complained nonchalantly, "The half of what you said almost didn't scare me!"

As he spoke, he took the remaining tea and poured it into his belly.

When the teacup was put back on the shelf, Xue Baochai handed over the handkerchief, wiped the corners of her mouth for her, and then took the initiative to change the subject, "I heard that Xue Biao from my second uncle's family has been to Beijing a few days ago?"

This Xue Biao is the eldest son of Baochai's uncle's family, that is, Baochai's cousin.

"Brother Tad has not been here for half a day, and then he left in a hurry. I saw that he was really busy with his hands and feet not touching the ground. Not to mention you, even your brother didn't alarm him. He just told Brother Tad that it was you." My brother went out to hunt in the city, and I don't know when he will come back."

Speaking of Xue Biao, Aunt Xue said with pity and admiration, "Speaking of which, he is half a month younger than you, and now he has supported the family business inside and out. When it comes to business, there are many rules. Somewhat like the shadow of your father and second uncle!"

As she said that, she couldn't help but sighed again, "It's also your brothers and sisters who are suffering, and each of them hasn't grown up yet, so the cruel brothers left, leaving only us two wives..."

Xue Biao's father also passed away two years ago, and also left behind a pair of children, the elder was the same age as Baochai, and the younger was thirteen, a few months younger than Lin Daiyu.

Seeing the big tears falling down her mother's face, Xue Baochai hurriedly squeezed her delicate body into her mother's arms, rubbed against the wet tube top, and said softly, "It's all my daughter's fault. The mother who provoked for no reason thinks about it again." It’s a sad thing—you should stop crying, otherwise how can you go see the second elder brother of the Sun family and Mr. Liu later?”

Aunt Xue hugged her daughter and dropped a few more golden beans, and then smiled through her tears and said, "Look at me, why are you mentioning these so well?"

As he said, he helped his daughter up, wiped away tears with a handkerchief, and said, "By the way, when Xue Biao passed by Jinmen Mansion, he bumped into Sun Jia Erlang. More than half of the officials were present, and Xue Biao only thought that the governor of Zhili was going on a trip, but later found out that he was sending Sun Jiaerlang back to Beijing."

"You also know that your cousin likes to make friends with strange people and strange things the most, so he specifically inquired about Sun Jiaerlang's activities in Jinmen Mansion, and took advantage of the fate of going to Beijing on the same road, he went to have a chat with him. Only then did I know the relationship between our two families."

"So when we came to our house, Xue Biao told me that since your brother has friendship with Sun Jiaerlang, you might as well move some of Nanbian'er's business to Jinmen Mansion. Once Sun Jiaerlang is taking care of you, it won't be too late. I have suffered a debt; secondly, I will not be too far behind, so that the managers below will have second thoughts."

Speaking of this, Aunt Xue couldn't help but angrily said, "If you want to say that they are all people used by your father, who would have dared to bully our orphans and widows like this behind the scenes? I'm in my early years, I guess it won't take a few years before our family will be exhausted!"

After Xue Pan married the Wang family, while fighting at the head of the bed and making peace at the end of the bed every day, he naturally did not forget his original intention - to use the power of the Wang family to subdue those disobedient shopkeepers.

But in the capital, it's okay to say that the business in Jiangnan is sky-high and the emperor is far away. Even if a group of people are temporarily deterred by killing chickens and monkeys, accidents will inevitably happen after a long time.

They also joined Xue Pan and Xue Baochai brothers and sisters, seeing that they were all going to take root in the capital, and the future development center of gravity would inevitably be biased towards the north, so Xue Biao made such a suggestion.

"The Jinmen mansion..."

Xue Baochai lowered her head and pondered for a while, but finally shook her head and said, "It's best not to get too close to the Sun family at the moment, and it's not too late to make plans after the matter of the emperor's order is settled."

She always made up her own mind at home, and Aunt Xue didn't care much about business, so after hearing this, she turned over this article with a little regret.

After that, the two of them had nothing to do with each other again, gossiping about the daily life, discussing some trivial things in the palace.

While chatting, the matter of Jia Yuanchun, the virtuous concubine, being shortlisted for the 'seed contestant' was naturally mentioned.

Aunt Xue lowered her voice, and asked in a low voice, "When I went to Rongguo Mansion a few days ago, your aunt was still secretive and refused to tell me the truth—in your opinion, is there any reason for this?"

"This……"

Xue Baochai was hesitant, not knowing how to comment on the matter, when the curtain was lifted, and Mrs. Wang rushed in from outside, shaking the water she didn't know where she got on, and said softly, "Mother, sister, that silly Huo is clamoring to have a few drinks with Mr. Sun, but I can't persuade him, how to deal with it, you guys come up with an idea quickly."

Aunt Xue jumped up as soon as she heard this, and said "how can this be done", she wanted to look for it, and dissuaded Xue Pan from messing around and hurting his body.

But Xue Baochai didn't care, shook his head and said, "If only Young Master Liu is here, maybe we should go over and persuade him, but since the second elder brother of the Sun family is also here, I will definitely not let my elder brother mess around."

Since the Wang family is a flirtatious master, naturally she can't understand Xue Baochai's conformist appearance, and relying on the strength of her natal family, she always loves to confront Baochai tit for tat.

Hearing what she said with certainty at this time, she immediately exaggeratedly called out, "Ouch~ Listening to what my sister said, it seems like a roundworm in Mrs. Sun's belly, but I don't know how much you can figure out what you think about Brother Bao... Come?"

Xue Baochai knew her temper early on, so she wasn't annoyed, she just said indifferently, "Brother Bao is the most pure-hearted, he puts all his thoughts on his face and mouth, but why should he try to think about it?"

Wang sneered when she heard the words, and before she could sneer and sneer, Aunt Xue at the side quickly acted as a peacemaker, and took advantage of the situation to change the subject, asking Cai, Sun Liu, and Xue Pan what they had said just now.

"Nothing important."

Mrs. Wang said indifferently, "At first, that idiot wanted to take revenge, but was scolded by Mr. Sun in a few words. It's the first time I've seen him so well-behaved!"

"Later, Master Sun said that he would send someone to investigate secretly. After finding out the origin of the other party and the grievances with that idiot, it will not be too late to decide how to deal with it."

When Aunt Xue heard this, she couldn't help turning her head to look at her daughter, thinking to herself that Erlang of the Sun family really wanted to go with her daughter.

Based on this heart-to-heart bond and the son's respect for Erlang of the Sun family—if Jia Baoyu and Zhuyu hadn't been in front of him, it would have been an excellent choice to recruit him as a son-in-law.

But now...

Seeing that Jia Baoyu had a chance to become a genuine national uncle, he naturally wanted to tie him up wholeheartedly, and even the "testing" he had prepared before had no choice but to give up.

Just as she was thinking of this, Yinger also came in from the outside, bowing with pearls hanging from her temples, "Ma'am, sir, please go over and talk."

"Call me over to talk?"

Aunt Xue was taken aback when she heard the words, and said in surprise, "Master Sun and the others have already left?"

"This is not."

Ying'er shook her head and said, "I heard that we need to discuss about our family's business in Jinmen Mansion."

Do business in Jinmen Mansion?

Aunt Xue couldn't help but glanced at Baochai again, seeing her daughter looking at her, she hurriedly shook her head, "Your brother is still recuperating these days, and I never mentioned Brother Tiao'er's words to him."

Xue Baochai was the only one who hesitated, and told her, "Since that's the case, mother might as well agree first, and it's up to our family to decide when to return the shop."

Aunt Xue agreed, picked up the curtain and went outside with Mrs. Wang, only to see the wisps of rain from the west turned into a torrential rain at some point.

Chapter 479

Although there is a corridor between the east and west wing rooms and the main room, in order to avoid blocking the sun, the corridor is only as wide as two people side by side. Can't live.

"Yo!"

Wang yelled exaggeratedly, probed her head and complained, "It took me only a few words to come in, but it's raining so hard!"

As she said that, her eyes suddenly brightened again, and she happily suggested to her mother-in-law, "Since God is keeping guests, why not invite Mrs. Sun and Mr. Liu to have lunch at our house before leaving."

It is natural to say this, but when it comes out of Wang's mouth, it always seems to have bad motives.

So Aunt Xue ignored her, and waited for Yinger to fetch two paper umbrellas in a hurry, then propped up one of the yellow jade umbrellas, protected her side like a shield, and walked towards the main room against the wall.

Wang shrugged at her back, then quickly opened the umbrella and followed her step by step.

After the two entered the main room one after the other, before putting away the paper umbrella, Sun Shaozong heard the movement in the room, led Liu Xianglian to welcome him out, and bowed to "Auntie".

"You two nephews don't need to be too polite."

Aunt Xue hurriedly threw the paper umbrella to the ground, stretched out her hand to help and said, "It's rare that you are still thinking about visiting Wenlong in such weather."

"It's too late to know, otherwise I should have come here long ago."

As Sun Shaozong said, he straightened his back and looked from bottom to top, but suddenly found a wet mark in the shape of a palm print on the charcoal red tube top.

This……

Could it be that you accidentally got it when you came here just now?

But everything else on her body is in good shape, why is it that only the lower part of her chest is wet, but it still supports half of her conscience like five dragons holding a peak?

Could it be that Xue Pan's dead ghost father already has shiny green hair on his head?

wrong!

Even if you want to steal people, there is no reason to go to the son's yard to steal people.

Seems like it was just a coincidence.

Thinking wildly in his heart, Sun Shaozong didn't show it at all, and respectfully welcomed the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law into the inner room.

I saw Xue Pan leaning on the bed, leaning on the bed. Although he was out of breath, he still shouted excitedly, "Mother! Just now I heard the second brother say that the Jinmen Mansion has great potential. Don't you always think I'm not doing my job properly? Today I Just take a serious idea, just transfer [-]% of our family's business people in the south of the Yangtze River to Jinmen Mansion!"

When Aunt Xue heard this, she immediately ran into trouble. According to her daughter, before the emperor's order was settled, it was not suitable for her family to have too many interests with the Sun family.

But the son made up his mind as soon as he opened his mouth, and Sun Shaozong had good intentions. Even if Aunt Xue wanted to delay, she couldn't find a suitable reason for a while.

When he was in a dilemma, Sun Shaozong had already seen some clues. Although he didn't know the reason, he still smiled and smoothed things over and said, "I just said that casually, whether it is suitable or not, I should have thought about it before making up my mind." , you are so anxious and frightened, you are not afraid of losing your money."

"What are you afraid of!"

Xue Pan didn't care and said, "With the help of my second brother, at least I won't make it easier for those dirty old thieves!"

Sun Shaozong smiled slightly, changed the topic casually, and told him to take good care of himself, and to have a few glasses of wine with him in a few days when his house is full of moon wine.

After Xue Pan responded with a full mouth, Sun Shaozong cupped his hands to Aunt Xue again and said, "Auntie, Brother Liu Xian and I still have some mundane affairs, it is really inconvenient to stay for a long time, so come to the house to bother me some other day."

Although after the elephant incident, the Xue family can be regarded as a good family, but it is fine to chat with each other, but it would be too much to sit down and chat with Aunt Xue.

That's why Sun Shaozong took his leave at the right time.

But Xue Pan has been suffocated in the past few days, and it is easy for someone to talk with him, so how can he just let them go?

He urged the two of them to stay and wait for lunch before leaving.

Mrs. Wang also hurriedly joined in, her watery peach blossom eyes turned around, and she almost framed Liu Xianglian and hung it in her boudoir.

Although Liu Xianglian is also a vagabond, how can she bear this?

Just now, he had endured five labors and seven injuries, and now before Sun Shaozong could speak, he shook his head and waved his hands, "No, no, the second brother is going to the Prince's Mansion on business, and I have to go back to arrange the marriage. There is really no delay, another day, or Let’s bother you another day!”

Seeing that the two were determined to leave, Xue Pan had no choice but to get up because his feet were weak, so he begged, "Mother, please send me a second brother and brother Liu."

In fact, this matter should be entrusted to Wang Shi, but Wang Shi's salivating appearance really made Xue Pan lazy to pay attention to her.

Sun Shaozong hurriedly said, "I don't dare to bother my aunt", but Aunt Xue kept saying "the hospitality is not good", and they just said different things for a few minutes, and they filed out of the room together.

But when they got outside the door, seeing the heavy rain pouring down, both Sun Shaozong and Liu Xianglian couldn't help but stop—although they also heard that the rain outside was getting heavier and heavier just now, they didn't expect it to be so heavy.

Sun Shaozong was thinking whether to borrow two rain gear first, and then make do with it when he leaves Xue's mansion, or invite the servants of Xue's family to go outside to fetch his and Liu Xianglian's coir raincoats, when he suddenly heard Aunt Xue's exclamation of "Oops" behind him.

Turning his head to look, he saw the woman jumping out of the door dancing and dancing, seeing her feet stumbling, she was about to roll down the steps!

In desperation, Sun Shaozong didn't think too much about it, and with his ape arm stretched out, he encircled Aunt Xue's body from behind—who knew that this catch was a coincidence, it was buckled on the wet mark of the palm print, and he held her tightly. It's full!

This is a mess!

Sun Shaozong was very embarrassed, and after a little effort to straighten Aunt Xue's plump and moderate body, he hurriedly withdrew his claws back.

Fortunately, Aunt Xue was facing away from the crowd at this time, and all this happened suddenly, but no one noticed the strangeness.

But these actions can be hidden from others, how can they be hidden from Aunt Xue, the person involved?

Especially at the last exertion, Aunt Xue couldn't help but let out another coquettish cry of "Oops", her oval face became more than half red all of a sudden, her heart was beating like a drum, and she subconsciously raised her hand You must cover it tightly.

Seeing her distraught appearance, Sun Shaozong was afraid that she might show her feet, so he hurriedly asked, "Auntie, are you okay? What happened just now?!"

"I-I'm fine."

Only then did Aunt Xue come to her senses, stroked her hand on her chest, avoided Sun Shaozong's gaze in a panic, turned her head and said angrily, "What's the matter with you child? Why are you pushing me so well?!"

At the back, Mrs. Wang poked her head out from behind the curtain, no longer seeing the domineering person she used to be, and said awkwardly, "I...just now through the curtain, I didn't expect my mother to stop at the threshold."

But it turned out that she was following behind just now, and her eyes were full of Liu Xianglian's back. Seeing that the curtain was hanging down, covering his sight, he hurriedly stepped forward to open the curtain, wanting to follow outside.

Coincidentally, at this time, Sun and Liu stopped in the corridor. Aunt Xue kicked in and out of the door, and she had to stop, but she was bumped by Wang from behind, and her left foot knocked on the threshold. Lost balance and fell forward.

Aunt Xue saw that she had succumbed to the softness, so she didn't want to be harsh, so she turned around and blessed her, "Thank you, nephew, for your help."

Xie Guixie, but she didn't dare to meet Sun Shaozong's eyes, she just felt that her left chest was hot and swollen, as if she was setting up a cage to steam white flour steamed buns, and the heat flowed through her veins, muscles and bones. It rushed to the head, and the cheeks were swollen like a tube top.

Seeing this, how dare Sun Shaozong stay for a long time?

Hurriedly went back to the house and picked up the two oil-paper umbrellas, which were not considered women's style, forced one to Liu Xianglian, and left in a hurry, seeing Xue Pan's small courtyard, and arrived at the corridor connecting the front and back , Sun Shaozong was slightly relieved.

"Second brother."

At this moment, Liu Xianglian suddenly sighed, "Aunt Xue's life is not easy."

"what?"

This nonsensical sentence made Sun Shaozong feel uneasy again, secretly thinking that this kid must have seen something, right?

Then I heard Liu Xianglian say, "Look at how angry she was just now, her face was flushed, but she didn't dare to blame that Mrs. Wang—this rich and noble girl is not easy to provoke."

As he said that, he smugly said, "It's still like my younger brother, it's justified to marry someone with no background and good looks!"

Sun Shaozong "..."

Chapter 480

It was raining torrentially.

Inside the carriage, Sun Shaozong was leaning on the soft cushion, with his right palm hanging in front of his body and five fingers spread apart, as if he was holding something huge. His expression was subtle and rippling, mixed with...